Balk vs Accept - What's the difference?
balk | accept |
ridge, an unplowed strip of land
* Fuller
beam, crossbeam
A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
* South
A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
(sports) deceptive motion; feint
# (baseball) an illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner
# (badminton) motion used to deceive an opponent during a serve
(archaic) To pass over or by.
To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
(obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
* Evelyn
* Bishop Hall
* Drayton
To stop, check, block.
To stop short and refuse to go on.
To refuse suddenly.
To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to thwart.
* Byron
To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
* Spenser
To leave or make balks in.
To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
* Shakespeare
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
(Webster 1913)
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate), Psalms 20:3
To admit to a place or a group.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
To endure patiently.
(transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.
To receive officially
To receive something willingly.
(obsolete) Accepted.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , V-ii
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between balk and accept
is that balk is (obsolete) to miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk while accept is (obsolete) accepted.As verbs the difference between balk and accept
is that balk is (archaic) to pass over or by or balk can be to indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring while accept is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.As a noun balk
is ridge, an unplowed strip of land.As an adjective accept is
(obsolete) accepted.balk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) balke, (etyl) balca, either from or influenced by (etyl) .Alternative forms
* baulkNoun
(en noun)- Bad ploughmen made balks of such ground.
- a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker
Verb
(en verb)- By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the nns.
- Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
- Nor doth he any creature balk , / But lays on all he meeteth.
- The horse balked .
- to balk expectation
- They shall not balk my entrance.
- In strifeful terms with him to balk .
- (Gower)
- Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, / Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)References
accept
English
Verb
(en verb)- She accepted of a treat.
- The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
- The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
- I accept the fact that Christ lived.
- I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- I accept my punishment.
- to accept the report of a committee
- I accept .
Synonyms
* receive * take * withtake * admitAntonyms
* reject * declineDerived terms
* accepted * acceptedly * accepter * acceptive * accept a bill * accept person * accept serviceAdjective
(en adjective)- Pass our accept and peremptory answer.